GP practices will be paid quarterly for expanded health checks on people with learning disabilities as part of the Directed Enhanced Service (DES), which the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) believes will help “hard-pressed” GP budgets. Continue reading →

According to the president of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), a funding crisis and increased demand for care means that general practice, as patients know it in the UK, is under “severe threat of extinction.” Continue reading →

GP leaders have described the 0.28 per cent overall rise in GP contract payments, which is intended to deliver a 1 per cent pay rise for GPs in 2014/15, as a “kick in the teeth”. Continue reading →

NHS England is in the process of reviewing its primary care contractors’ contributions for providing out-of-hours services in a bid to ensure that there is an ‘equitable methodology in deduction across all practices and that GP practices are not being over or under charged’. Continue reading →

If proposals by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for GPs to provide urgent care in core hours to help cut A&E attendance are taken up, practices may see their funding boosted by up to 35 per cent. Continue reading →